Demystifying the PAP

Microsoft Teams

The Progression Assessment Panel, or PAP, arrives at the end of the first full-time (or equivalent) year for all doctoral researchers. But what needs to be prepared? How long is it? Is it the same for everyone? Does it impact on the success or failure for the PhD? This informal workshop will explore all this […]

Research Ethics – Online, Drop-in Session

Microsoft Teams

Research Ethics is just part of the broader focus on Research Integrity that all researchers are expected to adhere to, with applications for ethical review submitted before any primary research is carried out, usually in the first year of the PhD.  If you have questions, issues that it would be helpful to explore or you would […]

Data analysis workshop on stance and stancetaking

The Curzon Building Birmingham City University, 4 Cardigan Street, Birmingham

Professor Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh) will be leading a workshop on data analysis, drawing on his research on stance. Stance and stancetaking is a useful tool for all sorts of sociolinguistic analysis, but what is it and how do we find it? This workshop outlines a framework for analysis and then provides practical steps […]

The meaning of tough(ness) in sociolinguistics

The Curzon Building Birmingham City University, 4 Cardigan Street, Birmingham

Professor Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh) talks about how toughness can help shed more light on sociolinguistic variation. Toughness has long been appealed to as a quality used to explain patterns of sociolinguistic variation, particularly in relation to gender (e.g., Trudgill 1974). This paper explores the role of this term and the qualities it describes […]

Embracing Doubt

Parkside - P249 5 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

This is an interactive, in person - and potentially glitter-filled - session on embracing doubt in research. Led by Dr Lisa Metherell, this will explore some of the concepts at play - care, orientation, and relationships to power - and involve exploring the significance of these ideas in relation to your own doctoral research. It […]

Get S*** Done Day

C459 Curzon Building

The latest incarnation of a PGR-led initiative - Get S*** Done Day - to which any ADM PGRs are invited.  An opportunity to work together, provide peer support and community.  Takes place in Curzon, and will be preceded by Coffee and Chat if you'd like to join us there, too.

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